006. Video

[foolishwren]

<sub>[The feed blips on and jostles around a bit before centering on Heather's face. It's bright-- the sun's already beating down full-force and it's obvious even from the video that it's hot as heck. She's not wearing her vest, just the sleeveless orange half-shirt thing that she found in her backpack. She wears that kind of stuff all the time so it was less offensive to her tomboy mentality than the ridiculous buttshorts.]

[She... is grinning like a fiend, positively glowing with enthusiasm. Some safety glasses she must have found somewhere in the back of the Center are perched on her hair, and she seems to have some kind of rope coiled around her arm. It seems that whatever she couldn't find for sale in the Pokemart, she liberated from a janitorial closet somewhere in the Center. Heather's kind of an opportunist.]

[She raises her hand-- it's wearing one of those goofy pink rubber gloves included in everyone's backpack. ... She kind of looks like a mad scientist of the 'middleschool science class lab' variety. She has to work with what she's got.]</sub>

Hello, ladies and gentlemen!

Today I am going to perform an experiment. I'm sure a lot of you know about that big Beedrill swarm on Route Whatever. I figure none of us wanna get stuck here in Cherrygrove for yet another week, so I'm gonna try science.

_{[The screen angles downwards-- next to her feet, there's a couple of very fishy-looking containers. Bleach, some kind of ammonia-based... something or other, and a plastic bucket with a lid. And rope. A lot of rope.]}

As you all can see, I've gathered a few everyday, household items. If any of you out there were like me as kids, you realized that the contents of the cupboard under the sink had the destructive capacity of ... uh, something really destructive. ... And if you were anything like me, that cupboard spent most of its time locked to keep you away from it.

_{[There's a pause...and then the camera angles back up onto Heather's face again.]}

Anyway! In past experiences, I've used all this crap to make emergency insecticide. Now, I'm pretty sure these things can't die.... but at the very least, this stuff should be enough to pack a punch. So.

_{[She slips the glasses down over her eyes and gives a big thumbs-up to the camera.]}

See you in the aftermath!

.... OH! Oh man, wait, one last thing.

_{[The screen angles back downwards. To show off her BITCHIN' SWEET BLUE BIRDCATCHER PANTS THAT SHE STOLE WON FROM VAATI.]} Aw yeah! I have pants now. I can do anything.

This is gonna be awesome.

Comments

[walking-the-cat.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

[stealinghats.livejournal.com]

[glaring at his pants, he is secretly very upset about this. And by secretly I mean not secretly at all because goddamnit those were HIS bitchin' blue pants!]

What in the name of Din are you doing?

You're probably just going to make them angrier.

[foolishwren]

_{[HURR HURR HURR THEY'RE HEATHER'S PANTS NOW BIOTCH. Don't worry though, Vaati. You will get a chance to kick her ass someday. And avenge your pants.]}

I'm doing science. Duh.

And if they get angrier, I'll just run. Never failed me before.

[stealinghats.livejournal.com]

[SHUT UP NO THEY'RE NOTTTTTTTT /rages incoherently AND PLOTS TO AVENGE THE PANTS o9]

That's not science, that's... whatever it is you plan to do with those things. [What is bleach even?]

In case you haven't noticed, most of them have calmed down by now. It would be easier just to stay out of their way rather than make a mess of things.

[foolishwren]

I'm sure most of 'em have, but there's still quite a few buzzing around. Anyway, I wanna see if this works.

[stealinghats.livejournal.com]

Then it's a good thing I'm not going that way. Enjoy your pointless violence.

[usedstringshot.livejournal.com]

...this just has bad idea and animal abuse written all over it.

[foolishwren]

Well, considering this world is all about animal abuse in the form of magical dogfighting...

<sub>[Sorry, Spidey. Heather's beaten mutant dogs to death with steel pipes before, so she's kind of all about dealing with things that want to kill her with equal violence.]

[ON THE OTHER HAND, HE IS VERY RIGHT. IT'S A BAD IDEA.]</sub>

[usedstringshot.livejournal.com]

You realize mixing bleach and ammonia is toxic to, oh, everything that lives, right? And one of the compounds that can result has been used as freaking rocket fuel?

[Spidey's a chemistry nerd. He knows exactly how bad an idea this is.]

[foolishwren]

.... That's kind of the point.

_{[Heather's just a little desensitized-- she's used the very same compound to great effect before on killer bug swarms and it apparently hasn't occurred to her that this isn't Silent Hill and she doesn't need to use chemistry to solve problems here.]}

It wouldn't be very effective if I was using safe stuff like lemonade and sugar water, now would it?

[usedstringshot.livejournal.com]

Actually, if you were using lenonade and sugar water it'd probably have the exact opposite effect of what you were looking for.

But that's not the point. How about just using, y'know, Repels instead of of a poisonous chemical that could kill everything that breathes it in?

[boldandresolute.livejournal.com]

[amused] Have fun.

[Totally the best role model ever.]

[foolishwren]

_{[OF COURSE!]}

Aye aye, captain!

[usedbravebird.livejournal.com]

Oi, bring me back one of those bee things. All I got when I went out in that was a stupid Kakuna.

[She's healed/been tended now, it looks like, as she's got bandages all over her and, well, is TALKING.]

[foolishwren]

Oh hey, you get out of there okay? Good, I was worried I wouldn't get to see your fugly face again!

_{[Seriously though, Heather's glad to see Kazooie's all right.]}

I'll see what I can do.

[usedbravebird.livejournal.com]

Oh please, after looking at YOU and not bursting into flames, I can handle anything.

[And Kazooie likes Heather. Banter buddddy. <3]

Thanks.

[Yes, you're getting sincerely thanked, Heather. You're one of the few.]

[foolishwren]

Well I guess you're set for life, then! That must be pretty nice!

_{[She hasn't known Kazooie long enough to really appreciate the impact of that, but hey, thanks are nice!]}

No problem! Wish me luck!

[usedbravebird.livejournal.com]

You bet. Getting all the mental scars straight up works best.

Good luck. Try not to get in the middle of them.

[beware-of-bears.livejournal.com]

Under the sink? All we stored there was soap back home.

[foolishwren]

Uh.... well... I guess not everybody has bleach and ammonia...

_{[There's still something oddly familiar about this chick, and Heather can't quite put her finger on it...]}

[beware-of-bears.livejournal.com]

We had bleach sometimes, but only when we could go into town and get it, and those trips took a long time. It's like moving from place to place here.

[foolishwren]

... Man, you must live out in the boonies... where are you from, again?

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[geronimooooooo.livejournal.com]

That's not something you should be doing. The bees could be hurt.

[foolishwren]

Um... no offense, but to be entirely honest, I don't really care much about the wellbeing of a bunch of angry, swarming bees that are going after people.

[geronimooooooo.livejournal.com]

Bees rarely go after people unless provoked. I'm fairly sure trying to blow them up counts as provocation.